Nemotron 3 Ultra vs Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507
Nemotron 3 Ultra leads Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 22.9 to 12.7, and Nemotron 3 Ultra costs 1.5x less per output token ($2.40 vs $3.50 per million). Updated October 23, 2026; 41 benchmarks have a result for both.
Nemotron 3 Ultra or Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507: which to pick
Only Nemotron 3 Ultra has a coding score, 30.0 on the Vibe Coding Index; Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 for work measured by LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare or LMArena Text: Polish, where it leads.
- Shared results
- 41
- Nemotron 3 Ultra only
- 30
- Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 only
- 5
- Like-for-like categories
- 8 of 9
Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Only Nemotron 3 Ultra has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Nemotron 3 Ultra
Nemotron 3 Ultra leads, 22.9 against 12.7.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
Nemotron 3 Ultra
Nemotron 3 Ultra leads, 20.1 against 1.3.
Same board, both measured
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only Nemotron 3 Ultra has a GPQA Diamond result, 86.1%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only Nemotron 3 Ultra has a MMLU Pro result, 85.8%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
Nemotron 3 Ultra
Nemotron 3 Ultra leads, 1145 against 1052.
Same board, both measured
Long documents
Listed context window
Nemotron 3 Ultra
Nemotron 3 Ultra takes 262K tokens against 128K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Nemotron 3 Ultra
Nemotron 3 Ultra $0.0018, Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 $0.0022 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- Nemotron 3 Ultra 30.0 from 3 benchmarks, Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Web design, 18.9 points apart on average over 6 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- AA Coding Index: Nemotron 3 Ultra 49.3 against Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 22.1, 27.2 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Nemotron 3 Ultra $2.40 against Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 $3.50 per million output tokens, 1.5x apart.
- Context window
- Nemotron 3 Ultra takes 262K tokens, Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 128K.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | Nemotron 3 Ultra | Bars | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 4 | 0 | ||
| Intelligence | 1 | 0 | ||
| Agentic work | 1 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 5 | 0 | ||
| Math | 2 | 0 | 1 tie | |
| Knowledge | 3 | 1 | ||
| Web design | 6 | 0 | ||
| General | 16 | 1 | ||
| All shared boards | 38 | 2 | 1 tie |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index40
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Ultra | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Coding Index | 49.3 | 22.1 | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 86.0% | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Ultra measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 69.0% | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Ultra measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 7.6% | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Ultra measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 4.9% | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Ultra measured |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | 0.0% | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Ultra measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 50.9% | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Ultra measured |
| SciCode | 40.3% | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Ultra measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 36.4% | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Ultra measured |
| FrontierCode | 13.6% | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Ultra measured |
| WeirdML | 43.5% | 41.0% | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1467 | 1424 | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1468 | 1431 | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
| Neither model has a result on the other 30 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Ultra | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 22.9 | 12.7 | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 146.0 | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Ultra measured |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Ultra | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 20.1 | 1.3 | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 37.7% | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Ultra measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 15.4% | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Ultra measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 31.7% | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Ultra measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 83.3% | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Ultra measured |
| APEX-Agents | 22.7% | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Ultra measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | Not measured | -$11 | Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured |
| MCP Atlas | 63.1% | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Ultra measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 34 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index50
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Ultra | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 86.1% | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Ultra measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 86.7% | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Ultra measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 28.4% | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Ultra measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 85.4% | 80.1% | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
| Mystery game puzzles | 20.0% | 9.0% | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1452 | 1416 | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1472 | 1463 | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1453 | 1432 | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
| Neither model has a result on the other 15 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Ultra | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME | 86.7% | 86.7% | Tie |
| ProofBench | 2.0% | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Ultra measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1457 | 1412 | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1462 | 1435 | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
| Neither model has a result on the other 10 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index31
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Ultra | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 85.8% | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Ultra measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 82.1% | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Ultra measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 65.5% | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Ultra measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 73.1% | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Ultra measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 38.6% | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Ultra measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | Not measured | 40.4% | Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1465 | 1433 | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1455 | 1456 | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1453 | 1415 | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1435 | 1412 | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
| Neither model has a result on the other 10 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index60
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Ultra | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1145 | 1052 | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1135 | 942 | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1138 | 956 | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1142 | 950 | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1132 | 998 | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1146 | 1032 | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1069 | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Ultra measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1100 | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Ultra measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index161
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Ultra | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| IFBench | 81.4% | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Ultra measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 79.3% | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Ultra measured |
| DTBench | 90.1% | 80.3% | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
| LMCA | 36.9% | 29.3% | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
| Fiction.LiveBench | Not measured | 75.0% | Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured |
| Creative writing (Lech Mazur) | Not measured | 82.4% | Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1445 | 1415 | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1418 | 1386 | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1398 | 1384 | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
| LMArena Text: English | 1454 | 1429 | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1427 | 1397 | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1498 | 1481 | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
| LMArena Text: German | 1474 | 1408 | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | Not measured | 1386 | Only Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1385 | 1375 | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
| LMArena Text: French | 1473 | Not measured | Only Nemotron 3 Ultra measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1454 | 1389 | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1417 | 1400 | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1385 | 1390 | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1411 | 1406 | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1437 | 1399 | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1405 | 1388 | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1397 | 1370 | Nemotron 3 Ultra |
| Neither model has a result on the other 25 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Nemotron 3 Ultra | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Nemotron 3 Ultra costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra | Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | NVIDIA | Qwen |
| Weights | Open weights | Open weights |
| Released | June 4, 2026 | July 25, 2025 |
| Context window | 262K | 128K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.60 | $0.45 |
| Output $/Mtok | $2.40 | $3.50 |
| Coding index | 30.0 | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 3 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Nemotron 3 Ultra better than Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 for coding?
Only Nemotron 3 Ultra has a coding score, 30.0 on the Vibe Coding Index; Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 for work measured by LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare or LMArena Text: Polish, where it leads.
Which is cheaper, Nemotron 3 Ultra or Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507?
Nemotron 3 Ultra costs $0.60 per million input tokens and $2.40 per million output tokens; Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 costs $0.45 and $3.50. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, Nemotron 3 Ultra or Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507?
Nemotron 3 Ultra, with 262K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks is the Nemotron 3 Ultra vs Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 comparison based on?
41 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 23, 2026. Nemotron 3 Ultra's coding index rests on 3 independent benchmarks and Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.